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Preface:
Late yoga class yesterday, preceded by a lot of running around (work and errands all day long).
Decided to go on a 10 day smoothie cleanse, start day was 04.14.16


DR 1
I was a translator for the high court. However, one of the parties only spoke "dance", so I had to dance to communicate stuff. In my mind I was like, "really?"
(Super hilarious and interesting but I was apparently doing this as a job.)



DR 2
Someone was reciting rules to me about what I should or shouldn't do. I only halfway heard them.

I was with some random DCs and one of them was talking about lucid dreaming, about how he couldn't get lucid, one of them said "it takes upto a month" so then I'm shown a little memory, of how a DC has missed being lucid, I was kinda frustrated in the dream! Then we started to talk about WILD, and watch a DC have a successfull WILD! Too bad I didn't realise I was dreaming! There was a girl that had been missing but didn't know where she had gone, but she left her phone in the house and everytone one was worried.

I was in the school hallway, it was random, I didn't recognise ot anyway, I notice how one the girls in their try to hit on me, not knowing it was a Dream i totally forgot about my girlfriend, Hannah. My phone kept going off so I had to keep recharging it for some reason. Something weird happened that I cannot quite grasp one once I woke up. The dream turned into like a big screen and she was showing me all the programming language a that I needed to do a specific thing. For android(my phone) it looked like HNDROID.

I was in a class room with a man that wasn't even teaching, just sitting there, you get the one of two students that think there funny because I went outside I went to see how they where and one then just acted like a complete idiot so I went back inside, argumenta arise and so they tend to get a little bit cheeky so the teacher site them down and completely just knocks them both out haha. I come back in and ask him if I can punch them but I wasn't allowed to. As the dream carries on they come back wanting to come back causing more trouble trying to have a fight with me but that doesn't happen. So they kinda just disappear from the dream for a bit, I felt like I was being tormented but i was glad because they teacher had my bad, I was thinking to myself, the teacher is going to get kicked out if he's doing that to students it's bad, but I just realised I don't give a shit have. The teacher then does somehing funny, he goes into the other room and jumps on the teachers back and pulls her skirt down and replays a couple of times. I was getting ready for my family to come to school but I don't know why they where coming, as they got here, my step Mum said "I'll tell them your my son" and I just completely agreed and then my dad walk in I was shocked he didn't say a word and just say down. It Carries on and turns into a bus, I have no chlothes on accept underwear, and me and Hannah are suppose to be getting off next stop. I thought that Hannah got off the bus with me but completely didn't! As I got off it changed, the enviroment changed, everything changed and I was lost, but then I realised Hannah's was only round the corner, as the bus went it looked like my dad was crying and Hannah sitting there sad. It drove away and as I step into the middle of the road this fast yellow car comes along and I nearly get ran over, I was so terrified!

Morning of April 15, 2016. Friday.



I find myself in an unknown area, seemingly indoors, with no memory of much of anything. I think that there may be some sort of movie being made but this is not certain. The setting may be either a movie studio or a warehouse for movie props.

There is a large (apparently uprooted) tree on its side. The area with the roots is very large and complex. There is another (unknown) younger male character present.

I look more closely at the area of the large roots and notice a number of “eggs” between sections of the roots. However, these “eggs” soon seem to somehow be very small egg-shaped mechanical men that are also somewhat like egg-shaped garden gnomes. I cannot really determine the nature of the setting at this point though I decide that the tree is some sort of very odd movie prop.

One of the “roots” is actually some sort of lever. I pull it and a human-sized mechanical man emerges from the underside of the tree, from within the roots (as if the bottom of the tree is mostly hollow). The mechanical man is dressed in ordinary clothes and emerges stomach down with its arms forward, but moving with a sort of slower butterfly stroke swimming pattern, but also implying it is “reaching out” towards the other person. This “reaching out” is only incidental however, as this mechanical prop would always do this same routine whenever someone pulls the lever. I find it somewhat amusing and vaguely familiar, though I am not really focused on what sort of movie this big prop might be for. In a way, it reminds me of me when I was perhaps around twenty years of age.

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This is a very strange (and for me, entirely unique) waking transition. The butterfly stroke as being relative to swimming is an excellent hybrid flight symbol and simultaneous water emergence metaphor, similar to a manta ray, stingray, flying fish, or flying sub association.

Instead of climbing a tree as related to moving through another level of conscious awareness within my dream, my dream-self projected “mechanical me” (which otherwise symbolizes the “unreal” aspect of the dream state itself and the lack of a “real” physical form for the dreamer in the dream state), comes from inside the tree, and from the underside, as metaphorical for waking up. (Of course, “movie” is a replacement word for the dream state, though as stated before, fictional dream characters curiously also use “movie” to describe a real-life event.)

This is probably one of the only times I have seen a tree in a dream symbolize birth or awakening and as representing motherhood (validated by all the little egg men which are analogous to human ovaries, the tree roots being analogous to fallopian tubes in this case). Very curious. I am otherwise very familiar with this symbolism since I have documented hundreds of dreams which utilized this same basic template (including “The Tadpole’s Ghost” and “Red Wagon Teleportation” and many others). However, I am not aware of any dominant light source (or beam or ray) in this dream, though which is probably implied to be the seeming daytime setting itself (though I do not recall seeing a sunbeam coming from a window or doorway).

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Updated on Friday, 1 July 2016: I forgot that “coming out of a tree” could also be a play on “The Lorax”, who came out of a tree after it was chopped down. This then, would also seemingly be a reference to mortality rather than just birth. “The Lorax” was broadcast first on Valentine’s Day in 1972 and my father died on Valentine’s Day in 1979. The connection seems obvious now. There are probably hundreds (more like thousands) of markers like this in my dreams which I have not discovered yet.

I've been thinking lately about something a friend said to me, apparently if you stay properly hydrated during the day then your body will need 30% less sleep during the night. This is because keeping hydrated allows it to function better during the day so you don't need to recover as much while sleeping. I started paying attention to how hydrated I've been and noticed that the days where I stay extremely well hydrated result in the nights being more vivid with a higher chance of lucidity. I had 2 lucids last night which was unexpected, especially since the activities I spent time on doing yesterday usually result in me being less aware (reading, gaming, watching shows, exercising). My awareness has also just been generally gobshite over the past few days, despite meditating every night. I also didn't meditate last night since I was too tired, but I did consume a massive amount of liquids throughout the day. The only variable I can think of was that I drank like 3 different kinds of tea which I usually don't drink at all. Other than that my diet was completely the same as always.
I think staying hydrated could be a key condition for myself getting lucid at night, so I'll keep paying attention to it for now.

Dream 1 - Cafe Playground
I remember being with my daughter inside a playground (like the ones in McDonald's). She was much younger than she is now so I was helping her out a lot. I remember being able to see her mother/family outside the playground, we decide to head down a slide and go see them. We get down safely and go sit in the cafe that we appeared in. Next to me is someone from the family but I can't recognize who. I order a smoothie, it must be blueberry (guessing from the blue colour). I think I get up to go pay or something and I realize the baby isn't on me, so I turn around and go pick her up but I realize I'm dreaming. I wander past the cafe (it's like a small cafe they in the middle of the mall) and look around. The area seems similar to the mall near where I live, I think about what to do and come to a decision. In 1 of my previous lucids I was able to enter a VIP area by the elevator and wanted to see if I could get in there again. I find an elevator and press the button a few times. Geeze I feel like it's not working, eventually I wake up. The dream was pretty standard for my lucids, about 30-60 seconds.

Dream 2 - Star Wars office
It was like I was in a star wars video game (like jedi academy), I was doing a mission in an enemy base. The corridors were all metal and there was an opened gateway to my right. Past the gateway was a rocky cliff that seemed to end in an endless abyss, but there was another gateway on the other side. I'm sprinting along as I see this gateway, the doors on both sides are slowly closing, I do a huge leap over the abyss and tumble under the gateway on the other side. It was really close but I managed to make it before the door closed. I then enter the stars wars galactic government room, with all those floating things the politicians talk from. I remembered that in a video I watched a while ago the race E.T. was from was part of the galactic government, for some reason I really felt like looking around for them. After not being able to see them (though there were definitely a whole variety of alien species around) I had the awareness to become lucid. I decided that, unlike in my last lucid earlier in the night, I would reality check and attempt to stabilize a bit and then pursue a dream goal. I pushed my thumb into the palm of my hand, stretching it and confirming the dream state. Next I decided that I'd continue my search for a dream guide, the area I was in was more like a business work floor now. I remember seeing a girl walk past so I tried asking her if she was my dream guide, she kept moving away too fast and I couldn't catch up. She was only walking at a normal pace and I was running, she should have been a metre apart but eventually the distance increased to several metres and she disappeared. I got too caught up in the chase and ended up waking up.

I recall only a fragment. It was dark evening, she wanted to get to her school dorm, and so with brother and his fiancee we drove there.

1) In a way I do not understand very well know there is a person (I think it is a young woman) who is misbehaving in the future, I think it is committing a crime. This person has made a journey from the present to a time far in the future. She has used the information he has now to make the crime in the future. But I want to keep the crime is committed, I alert the police of time and give them the necessary information to take action. They detain the person and crime is prevented.

2) I'm in the garden of my house with my wife. I see her sister has a visit. I do not want to have to greet anyone and decide to go back inside the house. I decide that I have to go to the bathroom which is next to our bedroom, but no walls and I am in full view of anyone who passes by... At that time my wife appears with her sister and her visit. I feel very uncomfortable and ask them to leave, but they ignored me and start talking.

Fragment

1) I've been partying with a group of people with a cousin of mine who had not seen for a long time. At the end of the party my cousin is drunk and I find that he has lost me a guitar that was mine and was very special for me.

Competition night #5
Lots of little fragments today, frustrating that I can't remember much more of the dreams:

1) Chosing a drink, I decided on Baileys

2) I was with a young man. He was going to leave, I asked if he wanted a drink first, he said yes and I reached around to s drinks dispening machine and poured a cup of what I thought was water but it was actually a fizzy drink so I said I'm not going to waste it, put it to one soide and went to get him a glass of water.

3) I was with my wife and children. I had done some shopping on my motorbike and parked it by the car to unload shopping into the car. My wife reminded me that my mother in law was going home with them so I had to leave room for her so starting putting all the shopping around the seats. there were piles of cardboard boxes. I turned around to see a very young car park attendant wheeling my motorbike away and he parked it - I asked him why he had done that and he lectured me about leaving my motorbike in the way and what would happen if an old granny had tripped over it. I was annoyed but just ignored him.

4) Something was happening in my field (next to our house) I remember a very old friend form university being there but can't remember much else.

So, I remember i was sleeping in class then i woke up and saw that everything looks different. I panicked and asked my friend, "Where am I? What year is this?!"
She told me it's the forth year of your college. I asked her, what happened to me theseast few years!?
she then paused and replied, " Your mother..died in an ice-slide...and your father died when the house burned down." I remember that I started crying.then i got angry amd just went towards the teacher and kept shouting, "this is all your fault!"
She calmly replied,"it's none of my business. "
"We'll see!" I told her, then i stormed out of the classroom with my friend, then i grabbed everything that contained alcohol and wrapped it in a cloth and threw it in the fire. Then my friend and I, quickly started running away before we get caught.then on the way, I told her. How did my house burn?
she then told me, "It happened on your birthday..you probably should see it yourself." i got teary eyed once more then we headed somewhere. Everything was burned down except the metal skeleton of the house..
i looked around, on the ground there was a blue braclet and a blue necklace. "When your house burnt down and your father died, you threw his gift here, shouting ''I don't want your gifts! I want you!'" She told me, and i held the necklace tighter and then wore it. I then asked her if she wants to spend the night here with me, she said alright and we slept under the remains of the house.


then i woke up in n alternate universe where my house didn’t burn and my father was alive. I woke up in my bedroom and o my desk i saw a game. I looked at the cover and it said, Dragon age Carnivorous (which in my mind i saw it as dragon age 4)
Then i got excited and looked down my window. I remember telling myself, "Man, I wish this was a dream so i could fly outta here..." Then something snapped in me. I looked around the environment and realised, "This is a dream!" Then i became lucid. When i became lucid i recalled one of the tutorials i had read about lucid dreaming stability techniques. So before doing anything, i stopped and looked at my hand. On the palm of my hands i saw some written formulas about physics and as i continued looking i saw the detail of my hands, the lines etc. Then as i though i was ready, i shouted,"Dream clarity now! Lucidity now!" Then i saw the enviorment environment becoming more vicid and so i jumped to fly which i did but then everything turned black and i woke up.

* Giving a speech at Bernie Sanders rally.
* My girlfriend told me that she was dating someone else while we were broken up and she's leaving me to be with that person because she loves him.

I only remember a single fragment, but it was a rather powerful vision/exit dream. Got up maybe 10 minutes ago, still blurry and associative fluid.

I see a vision of expanding consciousness, it is expanding into light from the top of my perceptual field. There is a brief moment of pre-verbal reflection on my increased capacity to enter these expanded quasi-mystical states.

An image appear, or rather it is a translucent spectral scenario, set against the backdrop of the fluid shadows in darkness at the back of my eye lids.

It is a river bank, the river is wide, it is the Amazon. The trees are in-differentiable, there are so many. The image twirls inwards on itself as slightly to my left The Golden Python makes a brief appearance, she has business with me. Intent is clear, content incipient – I hear you Mother!

1. I had just walked into a very large room. The walls were an off-white color that looked kind of yellow as well, and the floor was covered in white tile that looked very old as some tiles had a yellow film of whatever on them. There were tons of old computers in this room, along with tons of connecting wires, chairs, and desks. I recognized this room as some sort of control room for who knows what. As I'm walking across the room I notice that all of the wires lead to 2 big boxes that seem to be the main computer system. A worker sees that I'm interested into how these work, so he comes over and starts to tell me about the big boxes. "Yeah these bad boys are the best in the market right now" he said. "Yeah I can definitely tell" I thought to myself not wanting to disrespect the worker. He then proceeds to open up the big computer box to the right of me. "The best part about these computers is, they have the most advanced technology yet" he tells me. Just as he opens it up all the way after saying that I see that the entire hard drive and the entire inside of the computer itself is filled with ripe greenish-yellow bananas. That's it. All of those wires were connecting to about 6 or 7 bananas and it was powering half of the room.
"Wow, that's really interesting" I tell the worker. "And that's not all" he continues. He then opens up the second computer which is to the left of me. "This baby is just as good" he says. This second computer is filled to the brim with raw potatoes, and they weren't even skinned either. Imagine that, the other half of all of the wires in the room all plugged into 10 or so raw potatoes; and it worked too. The entire room was functioning perfectly all because of these potatoes and bananas. I then walk away from the worker and walk over to one of the smaller desk computers. On my way to one of these desks I see my friend Sydney. As I make it to the desk, I pull out the chair and sit down. Immediately as I do so an extremely loud alarm goes off. The alarm is so loud that it is deafening. Suddenly a group of cops bust in through the back door. "What's going on in here?!?" one of them yells. "Check the main computer systems!!" another says.
The police officers all then run to the two main computers, open them up, and start inspecting them to see if there's something wrong with them. I get up out of my chair. Not too far from me I see my friend Richard and a few of my other friends sitting at a randomly placed lunch table that was spotless and extremely white. They're laughing and joking around. I walk over to them and sit next to Richard. "What's up Cory?" he asks. "Not much dude, what are you guys doing here?" I ask. "Just the usual" he replies(What in the hell does that even mean). "Do your remember Chris Sung from ROTC back when we were in it?" Richard asked. "Yeah, that dude is annoying as fuck. I'm so glad he stopped sitting with us at lunch a while back" I said. "Yeah dude, yesterday I was in PE with him, and he had a bottle of apple juice with him, and he opened it up and started squirting it all over the ground and it made a huge puddle of juice" Richard told me. He then got out a bottle of a mysterious liquid that was dark yellow and color and proceeded to demonstrate what Chris did. He did exactly what he had just told us what Chris did. He squirted the liquid in one spot on the table, and he wasn't stopping. The puddle of liquid was getting bigger and bigger and it was making a huge mess and was about to spill off of the table. "Dude Richard stop, you're making a huge mess" I tell him. "Nah it's aright dude, no biggie" he says.
Just then I got up from the table and left Richard and the rest of them. As I started walking away I saw Sydney again, and now she was walking with one of her girlfriends(not literal girlfriend, just a friend that's a girl). I was going to talk to her but she seemed in a rush and seconds later her and her friend were out the door. I walked out behind them not long after and found myself in a parking lot. I walked over to my car and got inside and started to drive off. As I got on the road and started leaving I remembered that I had forgotten to pick up Thomas as I was his only ride home. I looked in my right mirror and saw him running towards my car. He was wearing a purple polo shirt and cargo shorts with his tennis shoes. I turned around and picked him up.

2. I was inside of a wooden cabin, and it was extremely nice. The wood wasn't just some normal wood, it looked shiny and had a finished glossy appearance, and so did the floor. There was a party going on and there were a lot of people who I didn't know at all. All around the cabin there were lights of all colors, red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and purple. The lights looked really cool and gave the cabin a very dreamy and abstract atmosphere and vibe. Suddenly, a girl I used to know from sophomore year walks up to me, her name is Kayla Bailey. She was mad at me, but I can't remember why. While she yelled at me I remember thinking, "Holy shit she's lost her chill, she's nothing like she was sophomore year(I'm now a senior). The last thing I remember her saying was, "Cory, you better tie all of those 20 balloons together or you can leave!!".
It was then that I noticed that there were also balloons of many colors just laying all around the cabin. If I wanted to stay at this party, I had to tie these balloons together. I turn around to get to tying them all together, and as I do so I notice my sister standing right behind me. I knew that she had heard everything that Kayla had said and her facial expression was that of shock. "I'm going to go tie these balloons real quick, brb" I told her. With that I walked over to a corner of the room I was in where there was a ton of balloons and I started tying them together by their ends. I tied about 3 of them when I realized that I didn't need to do this and it wasn't worth my time. I got up, walked over to my sister and told her "We're leaving."

Had a dream about being a lawyer & another about being a hotel. But I don't remember the details. I woke up sick & just kept going back to sleep. I guess it just wasn't my day. I have a fever & the toilet was my best friend, lol. I guess sometimes you just have to deal w/ the cards dealt to you. I did write down the lawyer & hotel hoping I'd be able to recall the dream from that but it just didn't happen. This is the first time I've been sick in quite a long time though so I guess it was bound to happen. I do remember these were fairly detailed dreams though which prompted me to try & just leave myself the subject content. I just wasn't my day. Back to sleep I go.

14/4/16
Dream 1: I was in a house of some sort tinkering around with a little computer board. I got it to start playing music and so I started playing some of my favourite songs. My grandparents were in the other room and I thought they would be annoyed at this but they didn't seem to mind.

Dream 2: I was with my brother and mum at some place getting tickets for a theme park at the gold coast. I told the staff member what we wanted, then my mum corrected me, and this went on a couple of times until we finally sorted out what we wanted. The cashier commented on my height, then I turned around and saw a woman who was a few inches taller than me. My mum then told me that I would have to choose between eating meat pies the size of a full pie and seeing Kath and Kim live, and I struggled mightily with that choice.

Dream 3: I was handing in some work with my group for a project and we were getting live results back. We were only getting around 60-70% and I felt we should put more effort in, but then realised simply passing would be enough and so decided to just continue on as we were.

Dream 4: I was taking a trin through North Melbourne and out of the city. I ended up in a museum sort of place. I walked through and saw a depressed circle area filled with tbles and chairs. I walked in and saw it was a little Italian restaurant/café, surrounded on the outside by artwork and artifacts from Italy. I checked out their menu but didn't see anything I wanted at the time so I walked on through the exhibit.

Fragment: Something about handing backa lawn mower to someone.

Fragment: Someone ate my sandwich from my bag.

It’s a school break, but instead of driving home, I decide to roller-blade all 800 miles home. Thankfully, it flew by pretty quick, and I was in the home stretch (no pun intended). I went around what seemed like the same curve 3 times, but the third time the road was wet, so I started hydroplaning. Luckily, I kept decent control of it and started to approach my driveway. My house was right on the edge of a huge forest that would’ve been super cool to explore.

I have a small fragment where I’m playing a story mode in Rocket League. I’m trying to drive up a fairly steep hill, but I don’t have enough boost to make it all the way, and I keep sliding down the hill.

After my WBTB, I’m at the chapel of my old high school, where there’s a funeral for one of my friends’ dad. During the reception, another friend’s dad has some chest pain and gets rushed to the hospital. Meanwhile, the ceremony starts, and a bunch of junior-high kids are playing music, which sounds terrible. Meanwhile, I’m bored out of my mind, so I play on my phone. After the ceremony, my old choir teacher stops to talk to my mom, so I go up on stage to check out some of the sheet music on the piano. On my way up, I realize something is off, so I RC and discover I’m dreaming. I try to recall some tasks, so I start with flying down the center of the room, which no one seems to notice. I soon quickly wake up, however.

I lay still for about 30 seconds (longer than most of my DEILDs) and manage to fall back asleep. I’m now in my dorm hallway. I just decide to start running down the dream control list for the competition to rack up as many points as possible. First, I run super fast down the hallway, and manage to make it to the end and back in about 2 seconds. Next, I fly down the hallway again, just for good measure. As I’m flying, I throw my phone ahead of me, grab it with telekinesis and pull it back into my hand. I reach the end of the hall, so I land, get a running start, and phase through the door. I end up in the computer lab in the main building, which looks more like it did before they renovated it 2 years ago. I see a trashcan nearby, so try to make it disappear. I hold my hand in front of my face to block it from view, I will it to disappear, and when I remove my hand, it’s gone. Awesome. I turn down the next corner and see a ton of desks with missing chairs, so I turn my head, imagine more chairs there, and turn back around to see a ton more chairs, all perfectly in line.

I turn back around to see this one guy sitting at a desk, so I decide to interact with him. “Hey, how’s it going? I’m going to interact with you.” (I actually said that…)
He stays silent for a few seconds. “....Want some drugs?”
“What?”
He pulls out a ton of ripped up pieces of paper, claiming they’re drugs. Of course, being the Saturday-morning cartoon-watcher that I was as a kid, I say no to his drugs and walk away.

I then remember my task of transforming my arm into a robot arm. I hold it behind my back, try to imagine it changing, and pull it out again, but it looks the same, except for a single blinking LED on the back of my wrist. I try again, this time pulling my hoodie sleeve down to completely cover my arm. I walk up to some girl and tell her that I have an awesome robot arm. I pull down my sleeve to show them, but instead my arm is pretty disfigured. It’s at a weird angle, almost like it’s broken, and there’s weird ping-pong ball sized lumps sticking out of the sides. The girl freaks out and runs away screaming.

I try to think of some other stuff to do, when I get caught up with this group of people beatboxing and singing in the hallway. For some reason, I decide to join them and improvise a rap. I unfortunately don’t remember any of the lyrics, but I remember I was rapping about how I can’t rap. I leave this group and walk outside into this large parking lot, but then I wake up.

2 NLDs - 2 pts
1 Fragment - 0.5 pts
WBTB - 2 pts
DILD - 10 pts
RC/Stabilization - 1 pt
Flying - 5 pts (+5 1st Step) - 10 pts
Lucid Chain - 2 pts
Super Speed - 5 pts
Telekinesis - 5 pts (+10 2nd Step) - 15 points
Fully Phase through Big Solid Object - 10 pts (+15 3rd Step) - 25 pts
Basic Unsummoning (trash can) - 5 pts
Basic Summoning (chairs) - 5 pts
Interact with DC - 2 pts

Night 4 Total - 84.5 pts

From all the fragments that I received during the night, I remember only one (probably an effect of tiredness).

I was in my house, going out of a room. I had female legs and I was wearing a pantyhose and a black skirt on my legs. I wanted to see myself in a mirror. Instead I went to my room and thought "Wait, it's a dream!" I thought what I should do, and went to toy a bit with a mirror. I shapeshifted. First I looked like my brothers pal, then I changed into a man with unusual forehead, tiny eyes set on sides and baldness in YHA middle of the head. Then I thought about turning into a woman. I used the mirror to change, from ugly or plain females into some beautiful ones. Lucid dream wasn't really stable, so everything went black after a while and I woke up.

From all the shape changes I gave most attention to that strange man and to a redhead female that I turned into.